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Housing and Development Newsletter For performers who rely on timing, Zoom is a bit of nightmare. The time lag, Moseley noted, makes it hard for dancers in different spaces to stay together with the music, and the small spaces made it hard to move and perform the choreography accurately. “It is very hard to work on nuances, on expression, on artistry, on timing,” she said. “The dancers and choreographers faced a monumental task, in my opinion, and came through beautifully.” “Pop” wa...

Pandemic Provokes City vs. State Conflicts The coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 elections have increased the number of states preempting local laws and ordinances, especially where cities and states were run by different political parties. Elaine S. Povich, Stateline   |   April 20, 2021   |  Analysis Late last year, commissioners in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, proposed cutting police funding in half over the next decade and redirecting...

Music tells a story: it can deliver a narrative to the listener with a fully formed plot, it can tell the story of an emotion, of a concept, or of a moment in history. Take any given setting of the Requiem: on the surface, requiems are settings of the traditional Catholic Mass for the dead. The story could be as simple as that: religious text that has been set to music. One peak beyond the surface, however, shows composers facing mortality and grief. For example, Mozart ...

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...

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Friday, March 5, 2021 Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer Anna Clyne (photo: Jody Elff) Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited acce...

Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. From left: David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe in 1987, when they founded the contemporary-music organization Bang on a Can amid a long decline in public arts funding.Credit...Robert Lewis By William Robin Feb. 18, 2021 “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” the composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1...

How a scrappy arts group survived the 90s Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. by William Robin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recently lost about a fifth of its budget because of massive cut...

Joshua Kosman February 16, 2021Updated: February 16, 2021, 7:46 pm Bang on a Can founding artistic directors David Lang (left), Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Photo: Peter Serling Something possibly worth noting about the influential New York new-music behemoth Bang on a Can is that the name is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. There aren’t any cans, and there’s only a reasonable amount of banging. Yet the name, which evolved out of a throwaway joke in an early grant application...

WQXR Announces 2021 STAR (Salutes The ARts) Initiative STAR (Salutes The ARts) is a multi-pronged effort to support New York Citys cultural landscape.by BWW News Desk As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep New York Citys performance stages dark, WQXR, New York Citys classical music station, has announced STAR (Salutes The ARts), a multi-pronged effort to support New York Citys cultural landscape. STAR kicks off with four projects aimed at helping individual artists and organizations: grant...